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Bond yields are also set to rise as the Federal Reserve is expected to begin tapering its purchases of assets as growth improves, another factor typically heralding underperformance by US stocks, Credit Suisse says.
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This week the SandP 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average both surged to record highs of 1,775.22 and 15,721 respectively.
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Summers was expected to face a difficult, if not impossible confirmation process. Stocks rallied Monday, as traders assumed Fed Vice Chair Janet Yellen would now be named to replace Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke when he leaves at year end.
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Japan`s Nikkei closed the week with a rise of over 4 percent, marking its first weekly gain in five weeks. The stock market opened 1 percent higher on Monday on weakness in the yen, before retreating slightly to trade flat around 13,227.
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Stocks are caught in an earnings season shakeout.The third quarter is the first in three years, where profits are actually declining, and the stock market is taking notice.
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A new wave of earnings news Thursday could help push stocks toward the year's high water mark , but overseas events may play a role in setting the course for markets.
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Renewed jitters over Europe, growing fears about China and the US's precarious fiscal situation all bode poorly for the recent stock rally, which could correct as much as 25 percent in the coming months, an investment manager said Wednesday.
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The third quarter could fade quietly away in the week ahead, as markets look forward to a more dramatic fourth quarter, with the election and pending "fiscal cliff" making it the trickiest period of the year.
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Stocks in emerging economies such as China and Indonesia have underperformed this year in comparison to some developed markets, but the world's largest asset manager, BlackRock, says they are set to take off in the second half amid higher volatility in the United States and Europe.
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Low valuations, market reforms and the prospect of monetary easing were all supposed to bring about a long-awaited turnaround for China's languishing stock market this year, but halfway into 2011 and Chinese stocks have failed to live up to their promise.
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Speculation that major central banks are planning coordinated action heightened on Friday on a media report that Group of 20 nations are preparing to provide liquidity to financial markets.
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Uncertainty surrounding Greece will continue to tug at markets Thursday, as traders await the pricing of the big Facebook IPO.
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April has historically rewarded investors with market gains, and this time may be no different even on the heels of a stellar first quarter performance.
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If history is any indication, the stock market could soon lose the resilience it has shown so far in the face of soaring oil and gasoline prices, says a new report from Morgan Stanley.
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Another round of quantitative easing in the US will depend on the direction of the SandP 500, Marc Faber, editor of the Gloom, Boom and Doom Report told CNBC Monday, following Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke`s failure last week to hint at a QE3.
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The February employment report could carry a double whammy for markets and the economy unless it meets high expectations in the week ahead.
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Stocks face the challenge of rising oil prices and headline risk from Europe, but it could end up being the fresh economic reports on US manufacturing and the consumer that drive markets in the week ahead.
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Markets head into the week ahead on a tentative note, even as Greece looks set to get its bailout funds.
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China`s Lunar Year or Spring Festival begins today, marking the start of the Year of the Dragon. Will the dragon, a symbol of good fortune in Eastern culture, breathe fire into the stock market in 2012?
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The surprise stumble in the economy after the Japanese earth quake and the noxious headwinds from Europe, as it tried to contain its credit crisis, were factors that made forecasting tough in the past year. As a result, many strategists were off the mark with their yearend predictions.
